Principles of robotics : regulating robots in the real world

Boden, Margaret, Bryson, Joanna, Caldwell, Darwin, Dautenhahn, Kerstin, Edwards, Lilian, Kember, Sarah, Newman, Paul, Parry, Vivienne, Pegman, Geoff, Rodden, Tom, Sorrell, Tom, Wallis, Mick, Whitby, Blay and Winfield, Alan (2017) Principles of robotics : regulating robots in the real world. Connection Science, 29 (2). pp. 124-129. ISSN 0954-0091

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This paper proposes a set of five ethical principles, together with seven high-level messages, as a basis for responsible robotics. The Principles of Robotics were drafted in 2010 and published online in 2011. Since then the principles have influenced, and continue to influence, a number of initiatives in robot ethics but have not, to date, been formally published. This paper remedies that omission.

Item Type	Article
Identification Number	10.1080/09540091.2016.1271400
Additional information	© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords	principles of robotics, responsible innovation, robot ethics, software, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence
Date Deposited	15 May 2025 13:33
Last Modified	25 Feb 2026 00:41